September 10-October 30

September 30-October 31

October 14-30

Scarytown Scream Park, Plum Tree National, Harvard – A new haunted attraction with Camp Zombie, Deadwoods Haunted Trail and Terror Under the Big Top. Includes a concessions and bar area with scary movies on an outdoor movie screen, a kids’ area with storytelling and min-scare zones.

Annual Halloween Spooktacular!, The Fountains, Crystal Lake – Children age 12 and younger, with their families, welcome to trick or treat, play games, dance to spooky tunes with a DJ and enjoy refreshments.

Halloween Walk/Trick-or-Treating, Cary and Fox River Grove – Cary: Jewel Shopping Center (parade will start in front of the former Dunkin Donuts and end at Athletico). FRG: Stone Hill/Foxmoor Crossing (parade will start in front of Leader Ace Hardware and end at Early Learning Center).

Spooky Stories – Three times for different age groups, Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock Square.

October 30

Boo Party & Trick-or-Treating, Algonquin Commons – Frightfully fun time with pumpkin decorating, face painting, magic show, live entertainment and music, as well as trick-or-treating at participating store.

October 8-22

October 12

Historic Halloween Program, McHenry County Historical Society, Union – Join a shadowy procession through more than one hundred of the exquisite points of Victorian funereal culture. Refreshments in the Society’s West Harmony one-room school afterward.

October 14-15

Maze Til Midnight, Richardson Adventure Farm, Spring Grove – Richardson Farm is one of the few corn mazes open after dark, and the only maze that celebrates the full moon by staying open until midnight on select weekends.